I'm currently a liaison librarian at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
I studied linguistics and various languages, and taught English in New Caledonia and in Korea, before coming back to New Zealand to get my MLIS.
In my spare time, I write science-fiction and fantasy.
A colleague and I wanted to try taking a laptop and library materials out of the library building to catch up with the students who don't come into the library.
Coming from a linguistics background, I'm always interested in how language works, so this was a natural topic for my MLIS research report.
I've published a couple of science-fiction short stories:
An apprentice witch has to undo a spell when the wizard's goldfish transformation goes wrong, and the internet's of no use at all. Published in Electric Velocipede.
An alien used to living as the only one of her kind on a multicultural space station is confronted with new arrivals of her species. First published online in Abyss and Apex and reprinted in Best of the Rest 4.
Fighting bureaucracy over societal ramifications of universal extended life. It was published in the now defunct webzine "Papyrus".
